"What makes bearable not so and makes the doable punishable, / you substract from that first word". The answer is "on" (the prefix "un-"), because 'unbearable' and 'undoable' translate to 'ondraaglijk' and 'ondoenbaar'.

Finnish Version

"First think of what always follows the day, its light / what falls before the night, before the dark." The answer is hämärä, twilight. Harry doesn't know the answer first, thinking it could be ilta, evening.

"When you know how to bind the results with something, / and you answer: which creature will you not agree to peck?" The thing needed to bind the results is the letter h, when we get the word hämähäkki, spider.

"Finally, in order to discover the last clue / just get it from the end of the year." At first, Harry believes this to refer to Christmas (Noël), but that does not make sense with the other two clues; he then realises that the riddle refers to the end of the word "année", from which he obtains "ée".

"And finally a sound, not quite a word, / that you can hear from yourself now." The answer is "ne", which, unlike the English "er", makes very little sense, because nobody would say "ne" while seaching for words.

"What is the name of that which is "still" up-side down / and rests on the lips of thinking men?" 'Still' in Icelandic is enn, which is also the name of the letter N; so it's really n upside-down, which is u.

Síðast vér spyrjum, hvað saman safnast,undir sófa og engum gagnast,

"Lastly we ask, what gathers / under couches and is to no use?" The answer is ló, meaning dust bunnies.

"Now unite all three and tell me, o traveller: / black, six legs, dirty and repugnant; / to kiss it is truly a wretched thing. / Can you tell me what it's called?"

Harry first thinks of a spider (ragno), but realises that it has eight legs. Figuring out that the third part refers to faggio (beech tree), he guesses the correct response: scarafaggio (cockroach).

Japanese Version

最初のヒント。変装して生きる人はだれだ?秘密の取引、嘘ばかりつく人はだれだ

"The first hint. Who lives in disguise? / Secret negotiations, the one who always tells a lie, is who?"
The answer is a spy, so he uses the borrowed English word, スパイ or 'supai.'

二つ目のヒント。だれでもはじめに持っていて、途中にまだまだ持っていて、なんだのさいごはなんだ？

"Second hint. 'Everyone' has it at the beginning / and 'still' has it along the way, what is the end of 'what'?" 'Everyone' translates as だれでも、(daredemo), 'still' is まだまだ、 (madamada) and 'what' is なんだ or 'nanda.' The answer is 'da'

最後のヒントはただの音。言葉探しに苦労して、よく出す音はなんの音?

"The last hint is just a sound. When you struggle to find a word / what is the sound you often make?" Harry stumbles and says 'aaa...,' and realizes the answer is the 'aaa' sound (which also comes at the end of 'da').

つないでごらん。答えてごらん。キスしたくない生き物はなんだ？

"Connect them together. Answer. / What is the being you don't want to kiss?" Harry, having not discovered the second answer strings the first and last ones together. In an extremely similar manner to the original English version, he begins muttering 'supai...a' and upon rethinking the line 'the being you don't want to kiss' realizes that the answer is 'supaida' or spider. At that point, he puts it into its proper Japanese form as 蜘蛛 or kumo.

Norwegian Version

"First: The softest down and the bitterest bile / and almost the most precious promises of all." The answer is "edder". The first clue hints to eiderdown (edderdun) and the second part to vinegar (eddik) and the third to oaths (eder).

Spanish version

"If I did this to you, I'd tear you apart with my claws, / but that will only happen if you don't figure this out." This refers to "arañar" (to scratch), a verb whose third person is "araña" (Spanish for spider), but the clues in this verse are, of course, insufficient to allow Harry to guess.

"And the answer to this riddle is not easy / because it is far, in the lands of plenty / where the region of sand mountain begins". The region of 'sand mountains' is Arabia (Arabia), a word which starts with ara-.

y acaba la de los toros, la sangre, el mar, y la verbena.

"And that of bulls, blood, sea and verbena ends." This region is Spain (España), which ends with -ña.